Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[2.0.0] - 2026-05-05

This release includes 122 commits and 119 merged pull requests from 18 contributors since v0.7.0.

Features

• (backend) Update backend to support KFP V2 (#447)
• (chore) Support dynamic versioning for dev workflow (#491)
• (labextension) (backend) Allow code blocks to have the same name for input and output objects (#543)
• (labextension) (backend) Add per-step runtime image selection. (#571)
• (chore) Configure ruff linter and git hooks (#580)
• (labextension) Use notebook name as default pipeline name and handle TaskMissingError (#524)
• (labextension) Display default base image in cell metadata UI (#593)
• (labextension) (backend) Allow users to disable/enable cache for pipeline components or for the whole pipeline (#631)
• (chore) Modernize Docker setup for local Kale testing (#635)
• (labextension) Add native JupyterLab toolbar Compile and Run commands integrated with Kale deployment flow (#611)
• (labextension) Add KFP status icon to Kale (#645)
• (labextension) Add Kale settings in JupyterLab with enable by default and auto-save on compile/run options (#685)
• (backend) Allowing users to configure pip trusted hosts (#536)
• (backend) Implementing GPU limit on Pipeline template (#573)
• (labextension) Add download button for compiled pipeline file (#601)
• (labextension) Improve Depends on Empty State (#603)
• (labextension) Better CSS on Compile and upload button (#575)
• (labextension) Add a better empty state for Kale LeftPanel (#596)
• (backend) Issue 650: upgrade to kfp==2.16.0 (#651)
• (labextension) Change "This step did not produce any artifacts." message to something more convenient (#677)
• (backend) Update Metrics to be compatible with KFP v2 APIs (#665)
• (backend) Issue 501: PSS baseline - set security context (#656)
• (labextension) Remove auto saving and prompt users to save when Running/Compiling the notebook (#707)
• (backend) Improve error message when KFP server doesn't support securityContext (#696)
• (backend) Issue 680: configure kale to use different kfp server (#702)
• (labextension) Validate pipeline name length in UI (max 124 characters) (#763)

Bug Fixes

• (backend) Cleanup pipeline version on first upload (#448)
• (labextension) Fix issue [#500] - JupyterLab Dark theme hides some kale features (#517)
• (labextension) Bump lodash, tar, and brace-expansion (#597)
• (labextension) Prevent deploy panel stacking on multiple clicks (#602)
• (examples) Update data URLs and pinned dependencies for Python 3.12 (#657)
• (backend) Remove unreachable code and fix typos in serveutils.py (#668)
• (labextension) Guard onPanelRemove against missing deploys[index] (#666)
• (labextension) Persist pipeline metadata changes to notebook file (#642)
• (backend) Close file handle in read_json_from_file (#658)
• (backend) Use json format for xgboost model marshalling (#678)
• (labextension) Disable deploy buttons on form validation errors and show friendly error messages (#608)
• (examples) Fix maxTrialCount for the DogBreed example
• (backend) Cast pipeline parameters to their types
• (labextension) Fix progress bars when running pipelines (#484)
• (labextension) Fix opening of editor after clicking edit pencil icon above cells. (#485)
• (labextension) Fix error in webconsole when running pipeline (#493)
• (labextension) Issue 451 - fixing errors that occur when opening and closing notebooks (#496)
• (backend) Issue 494 - fix RPC error and allow kfp to run with Default experiment (#504)
• (labextension) Giving pipelines a default value so it will not fail (#514)
• (labextension) Issue 515: fix warning symbol logic, clean up progress messages (#516)
• (backend) ISSUE 511: Fixing artifacts generation (#518)
• (backend) Issue 526: fix hardcoded params (#527)
• (backend) ISSUE 511: Fixing artifacts generation (#518) (#534)
• (backend) Pipeline Version Link Returns "Cannot retrieve pipeline… (#582)
• (backend) Pipeline succeeds even with invalid/empty import (#617)
• (labextension) Edit button goes below the Cell when adding new cell (#615)
• (labextension) Kale throws exception when all cells are deleted (#614)
• (labextension) Fix deleting cells (#639)
• (labextension) Steps defined after current step should not be displayed as possible dependency (#730)
• (labextension) Fix log in web console and delete non existing RPC call to backend (#754)

Documentation

• (docs) Fix broken link to CONTRIBUTING.md in README (#626)
• (docs) Fix typo in rpc utils docstring (#659)
• (docs) Fix typos and outdated info in v2.0 docs (#776)
• (docs) Update README with project status (#459)
• (docs) Update readme with new build steps (#483)
• (docs) Issue 489: Fix the links (#520)
• (docs) Add v2.0 demo with voiceover (#540)
• (docs) Add cell types in ReadMe (#620)
• (docs) Issue 686: update kfp docs to version 2.16.0 (#694)
• (docs) New docs (#756)
• (docs) Updating README (#768)
• (docs) Refactor features list formatting in README (#771)

Build

• (chore) Pin GitHub Actions to commit SHAs (#725)
• (chore) Use changelog file for GitHub Release notes
• (chore) Bump python version on gha (#505)
• (chore) Migrate to uv + Makefile for Development Workflow (#544)
• (chore) Ensure Node.js 22 is used in GitHub Actions workflows (#638)

Miscellaneous

• (chore) Add GitHub issue templates for Kale (#458)
• (chore) Cleanup license headers (#492)
• (chore) Chore [#541]: creating OWNERS file (#542)
• (chore) Create E2E test that runs with KFP (#532)
• (chore) Standardize license headers to Kubeflow format (#568)
• (chore) Code cleanup from some leftover code (#590)
• (backend) Remove SDK and Python processor modules (#591)
• (labextension) Remove commented-out MUI v4 blocks (#765)
• (backend) Remove Rok and MLMD utils (#460)
• (backend) Replace string-based import parsing with AST-based detection (#592)
• (backend) Update jputils requirements version ranges
• (labextension) Merge v2.0-frontend-dev branch into main (#479)
• (labextension) Avoid any type in typescript code (#499)
• (examples) Fix all the examples (#512)
• (examples) Issue 471 - fix example runs (#533)
• (chore) Remove AUTHORS file in compliance with Kubeflow policy (#545)
• (chore) Rename CONTRIBUTING.md file (#583)
• (examples) Fix base-image in examples (#595)
• (backend) Issue 539 - Remove Marshaller logs from the HTML Artifacts (#579)
• (labextension) Hiding multiple warnings when building the extension in dev mode (#604)
• (backend) Remove default version_name because it is never used (#629)
• (labextension) Removing Outdated UI Metadata method (#695)
• (backend) Issue 683 remove deprecated code (#716)
• (labextension) Change cancel to OK in Cache Dialog (#746)
• (backend) Remove stale CLI entrypoints kale_server and kale-volumes (#760)
• (backend) Remove deprecated block: cell tag (#761)
• (chore) Add GitHub Actions release workflow and release tooling (#673)
• (chore) Add DCO signoff to automated version bump PRs (#692)
• (chore) Upgrade e2e test (#689)
• (chore) Issue 636: implement UI tests (#660)

Links

Full documentation: https://kale.kubeflow.org/en/latest/

Contributors

@ada333, @ai-naymul, @alikhere, @Amrit27k, @CodeVishal-17, @cordeirops, @davidgs, @ederign, @elikatsis, @FAUST-BENCHOU, @hmtosi, @jesuino, @Sayan4496, @StefanoFioravanzo, @Ya-shh